HC Deb 18 July 1975 vol 895 cc618-9W
Mr. D. E. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report all nursery building projects proposed to him for loan sanction by each local education authority in England for 1975–76, indicating how many he has approved and how many will now be deferred.

Miss Joan Lestor

Details of individual projects were not required when local education authorities were invited in Circular 2 of 1973 to state the volume of nursery education building that they wished to start in 1975–76. Allocations were made in August 1973 in the form of a lump sum for each authority and these figures were subsequently reapportioned amongst the new authorities which came into being in April 1974. Nursery education projects are normally minor projects in respect of which authorities are not required to seek individual loan sanction within their total allocations.